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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-07-25

AZ @ WSH

Home plate: Stu Scheurwater

“The challenge cart got its steps in.”

C
Umpire Grade
89.8% accurate
1.6
Run Favor
runs, WSH
6
ABS Overturns
of 7 reviewed

What this shows — how Stu Scheurwater called the 147 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 132 right. Below, only his misses are plotted, alongside every pitch the ABS (Automated Ball-Strike System) reviewed on a challenge.

The zone, as he called it

Challenge 1: Keibert Ruiz — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Keibert Ruiz — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: James McCann — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: James McCann — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4Challenge 5: Keibert Ruiz — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).5Challenge 6: Keibert Ruiz — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).6Challenge 7: Keibert Ruiz — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).7
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.69▼2 · 3-2 strike called ball
    Dylan Crews vs Mitch Bratt
  2. 2+0.39▼2 · 2-2 strike called ball
    Dylan Crews vs Mitch Bratt
  3. 3+0.30▼3 · 3-1 strike called ball
    Dylan Crews vs Mitch Bratt

Run impact from the count run-value table: a missed strike three is worth far more than one on 3-0.

ABS — the Automated Ball-Strike System

7 pitches went to the robots · 6 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.

  1. 1Keibert Ruiz — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Keibert Ruiz — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3James McCann — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  4. 4James McCann — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  5. 5Keibert Ruiz — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  6. 6Keibert Ruiz — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  7. 7Keibert Ruiz — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 7 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.

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